Basket.



H. R. GARRITSON.

BASKET.

1,153,057. Petemed Sept. 7, 1915.

HEETSSHEET 1- H. R. GARRITSON.

BASKET. APPLICATION FILED APR. 13, 1914.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANocmM-H CO., \(A5HlNGT-DN. a. c.

HENRY R. GARRITSON, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

BASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 7, 1915.

Application filed April 13, 1914. SerialNo. 831,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY R. GARRIT- SON, a citizen of the United States residing at Logansport, in the county of Cass and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baskets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in hand baskets.

The invention aims to provide a hand basket which is light,.strong, durable, and inexpensive to manufacture.

A further object of the invention is to provide a basket which will simulate a woven basket.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a basket embodying the invention, Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same, Fig. 4t is a plan view of a blank from which the basket is formed, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a bail-carrying frame.

In the drawings wherein is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention,"the numeral 10 designates a blank as a whole, preferably formed of suitably stifi or stout card-board, and preferably printed or otherwise marked to simulate a woven wooden fabric. This blank is scored longitudinally and transversely along lines 11 and 12, providing a bottom 13, sides 14, and ends 15, as shown. The blank is provided with 1ongitudinal slits 16 and transverse scores 17, providing substantially triangular flaps 18, carried by the opposite ends of the sides 14, as shown. The sides 14 are provided near and spaced a substantial distance from their outer longitudinal edges with scores 19, providing longitudinal flaps 20, for a purpose to be described. The ends 15 are scored along transverse outer lines 21, providing flaps 22, for a purpose to be explained.

The numeral 23 designates (see Fig. 5) a preferably rectangular bailcarrying frame, which is preferably formed of wire and is larger than the bottom 13. This frame has portions of its material bent upwardly or outwardly to form eyes 24;, to have pivotal connection with eyes 25 formed upon the lower ends of U-shaped bails 26, as shown. The upstanding eyes 21 project upwardly beyond the down turned flaps 20 for a substantial distance, whereby the eyes 25 of the bails, when the basket is supported thereby, are out of engagement with said flaps. This prevents the flaps from being torn by the swinging movement of the bails and dispenses with the necessity of reinforcingmeans about the flaps adjacent the connection of the bails 26 with the frame 23.

In forming the basket, the sides and ends are bent upwardly, the flaps 18 being bent inwardly and disposed upon the inner surface of the ends. The ends of these flaps overlap, and are secured together by means of staples 27 passing through the ends 15, as more clearly illustrated in Fi 1. The bail-carrying frame is disposed adjacent the upper portions of the ends 15 and sides 14 and exteriorly of the same, the end andside flaps 22 and 20 being bent outwardly over and about the frame 28. These flaps are preferably secured to the corresponding sides and ends bv means of glue or cement and also by means of staples 28 or the like. The flaps 20 are substantially shorter than the sides 14:, providing, when the blank is folded, openings 29, whereby corners 30 of the bail-carrying frame 23 are exposed, whereby the material of the blank is protected from injury, when the corners of the basket are struck, which not infrequently happens.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape, size, and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having described the invention, what is claimed is A basket comprising a blank provided with ends and sides carrying at their outer edges flaps, the flaps carried by the sides being substantially shorter than the sides and terminating at points spaced substantial distances from the ends of the sides, a substantially rectangular bail carrying frame disposed outwardly of the ends and sides and provided in its side portions with upstanding eyes extending upwardly beyond the downwardly folded flaps for a substantial distance, the side and end flaps being folded outwardly and downwardly about the substantially rectangular bail carrying frame and corner portions of the bail carrying frame being exposed, and a pair of bails the bails to be spaced a substantial distance above the flaps of the sides.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY R. GARRITSON.

provided at their lower ends with eyes pi'v Witnesses: otally engaging the upstanding eyes and JOHN S. LAIRY, adapted when the basket is supported by FRED G. SIX.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G. 

